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THE HAUNTED HEART by JAMES OPPENHEIM

First Line: THE HAUNTED HEART BESEECHES ME
Last Line: AND CONTINUE MY LONELY JOURNEY INTO THE SOMBRE DARK.
Subject(s): HOMECOMING;

THE haunted heart beseeches me:
It cries to my soul: "Winter has come...
With what a withering the wind blows!
And the gray twilight is bleak, though the lamplighter opens blossoms of white in the air...

"Wanderer, return!
Go to where the hearth is warm and the faces crowd:
Hearken to the calling of the children!"

So the haunted heart beseeches me,
But from my heart I turn my face
And continue my lonely journey into the sombre dark.



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